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Wednesday, August 06, 2014

PLANNING FOR WAR WITH RUSSIA & CHINA

It's actually been 69 years since the US dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9). The US is the only country in the world that has ever used these kinds of weapons against other human beings.

Here is how General Dwight D. Eisenhower reports he
reacted when he was told by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson that the
atomic bomb would be used:

“During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been
conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave
misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already
defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and
secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world
opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no
longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.”

Some might be surprised to learn that the Pentagon is still preparing for nuclear war - particularly with Russia and China. On July 31 the Pentagon published a new planning document entitled “Ensuring a Strong Defense for the Future,”
which was drafted by the National Defense Panel, a group of former top
civilian and military officials, commissioned by Congress to provide a
critical review of the official Pentagon planning document released
early this year, the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review.

The Pentagon planning document states:

“We believe … a global war-fighting capability to be the sine qua non of
a superpower and thus essential to the credibility of America’s overall
national security strategy. In the current threat environment, the United States could plausibly be called upon to deter or fight in several regions in overlapping time frames: on the Korean peninsula, in the East or South China Sea, in the Middle East, South Asia, and quite possibly in Europe [Russia].
The United States also faces the prospect of having to face
nuclear-armed adversaries. Additionally, the spread of al Qaeda and its
spin offs to new areas in Africa and the Middle East means that the U.S.
military must be able to sustain global counterterrorism operations and
defend the American homeland even when engaged in regional conflict
overseas.”

The authors repeatedly complain of the limitation on US military
spending because of the burden of domestic social programs, pointing to
“the large and growing gap between the amount collected to support
entitlement programs, principally Social Security and major health
programs, and the amount being spent on those programs.”

They declare, “America must get her fiscal house in order while
simultaneously funding robust military spending. Aggressive health care
cost containment should certainly be pursued both within the Department
[i.e., for the soldiers and their families] and more broadly across all
government programs.”

The National Defense Panel is co-chaired by William Perry, defense
secretary in the Clinton administration, and General John Abizaid,
former head of the US Central command. Its members include four other
retired generals, as well as Michele Flournoy, former deputy defense
secretary under Obama, and Eric Edelman, a leading neo-conservative and
defense undersecretary in the George W. Bush administration.

The group is thus bipartisan, representing the entire spectrum of the
security establishment in official Washington. Its report was issued
under the auspices of a federally funded agency devoted to the study of
war, whose name, with impeccable Orwellian logic, is the US Institute of
Peace.